Franco Lapini Decorative Objects

Marvelous Mid-Century serving tray fully made of vibrant tortoiseshell Lucite with a chrome frame. This incredibly elegant piece was designed by Dior Home and produced in Italy durin...

Italian silver box raised on 4 feet, 1970s Italian silver box in curvy octagonal shape with repousse design of flowers and scrolls The purity de...

Vintage Italian Hollywood Regency Faux Bamboo Silver Plated Serving Platter Stand. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 3.5" H x 17.5" W x 9.25" D.

A spectacular, oversized silver-plated serving dish by the Florentine silversmith Franco Lapini, made around 1970. At 84 cm long, it is a true showpiece, decorated with two large lob...

Amazing mid-century silver plate serving plate. Gio Ponti designed and signed this astonishing item for Cleto Munari in Italy during the 1980s. The flat and efficient design on two round levels, make this piece simply irresistible and iconic for midcentury lovers. This piece will smarten a midcentury living room or minimal and chromed bar. This wonderful piece is in very good condition. Dimensions (cms): Diameter - 32 Giovanni “Gio” Ponti, (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, September 16, 1979), is one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist and one of the most important of the twentieth century. Other than the great architectural works which carry his unmistakable signature, he created a vast amount of work in the furniture sector. This is demonstrated in his three Milanese houses which were fully furnished in the "Ponti" style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 is an "expression" of his home design ideas. Gio Ponti was an Italian promoter of industrial design and introduced the idea of interior furnishing ranges produced as being a "sophisticated," economic, "democratic" and modern. Molteni&C managed a reissuing project of furniture and furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for products for these private homes and limited editions. After a long journey of research, selection and study of prototypes, the collection was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile 2012. This was thanks to the cooperation and the exclusively signed agreement of the Ponti heirs and the artistic director of Cerri & Associati Studio. Gio Ponti graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan at the end of World War I, after he fought on the front line earning military decorations. In 1921 he married Giulia Vimercati, with whom he had four children: Lisa, Giovanna, Letizia and Giulio. In 1927 he opened a studio in Milan with the architect Emilio Lancia. From the beginning of the 1920’s until 1938 he worked with Richard-Ginori Manufactory and renewed its production. In 1928 he founded the Domus magazine with Gianni Mazzocchi. In 1933 he became the artistic director of Fontana Arte which was another success after the one he obtained with Richard-Ginori. In the 1930’s he participated in the Triennale exhibitions and later he successfully managed a few of them. From 1936 to 1961 he was a professor at the Milan Polytechnic, and in 1933 was associated with Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini, until 1945. From this partnership major projects were born, including the Montecatini Palace in Milan from 1936 to 1938, in which Ponti created the "integral design" of the building and the interiors. Other works of the period were civil architecture, including the Littoria Tower in Milan in 1933, school buildings such as the School of Mathematics at the University City Rome in 1934 and the Humanities Faculty and the Rectorate of the University of Padua in 1937. There were also residential projects such as Casa Marmont in 1934 and Milan "Domus" from 1931 to 1936. The richness of the artistic production of Cleto Munari, arises out of the discovery that every boundary is undefined, and the consequent need to create a “collection about syllables” or rather a “collection of figures” which, because of their incompleteness, luminously suggest the irrepressible quest of man’s intelligence to transfigure the world, according to his own vision. It is this a perfect complicity between the whisper of the “heart...

Distinctive oval silver-plated serving tray featuring an elegant raised botanical or coral-inspired motif at its center. Resting on delicate scrolling feet, the tray combines sculptu...

Fine silver plated serving tray. The company was founded in 1867 by Adrien Céleste Pillon (Ercuis is the name of a little village of the Oise). After his bankruptcy in 1870, the venture was revived by George Maës, a glass cutter in Clichy. The company turns to arts of the table; coffee and tea sets silver plated...

Vintage Italian Hollywood Regency Faux Bamboo Silver Plated Serving Platter Stand. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 3" H x 18.5" W x 10" D.

Square decorative serving tray made out of hammered cutout steel and silver plate handles. Mid-Century Modern Design made in America in the early 1970s. In pristine vintage condition...

Elegant vintage sterling silver dish featuring a clean, classic form with a gently stepped rim and engraved “AG” monogram at center. Its understated design makes it ideal as a small ...

Elegant large oval serving tray crafted in polished silver plate with a refined minimalist profile and classic stepped border detailing. The understated design emphasizes clean lines...

Gorgeous and unique Mid-Century round serving tray or centerpiece in chromed metal and tortoiseshell-effect Lucite. This stylish and unique piece was produced in Italy during the 197...